Comments on: Bug status: Del.icio.us not currently Delicious with Flock

By: Bug Resolved: Del.icio.us back to being delicious with Flock, but you have to help it at A Fool’s Wisdom

Tue, 21 Mar 2006 01:37:38 +0000

[...] We have concluded our investigation of the bug where when starting Flock all your favorites were gone. This was del.icio.us specific, and the bug was not in the Flock browser. There are no negavite effects to your favorites on del.icio.us. Unfortunately, the nature of this del.icio.us service bug, requires your manual correction. [...]

By: Daryl

Daryl — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 03:13:00 +0000

Whew! Thanks for the followup!

By: Something tastes funny at FactoryCity

Something tastes funny at FactoryCity — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 22:53:49 +0000

[...] Apparently Favorites are disappearing (*gasp!*) without a clear reason. Lloyd thinks that it might be something on Delicious’ end, but we’re still looking into it. Rest assured, no existing data is being lost — however, creating new favorites is definitely flaky (possibly because of interactions on the server side). Keep an eye on Bug #2919 for details. To report any issues you run into, drop a bug report to feedback (at) flock dot com. We’ve got our best people on this, so I’ll let you know the outcome as soon as I get word. Tags: del.icio.us, flock, flockbug, flockbug:2919 [...]

By: foolswisdom

foolswisdom — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 22:08:46 +0000

Thank you Daryl for your comment. I have updated the post to make it clear that the favorites are safe on Del.icio.us .

We can’t yet make a recommendation, but in working with the del.icio.us team, we think that restarting the browser after their issue is corrected with resolve the issue.

By: Daryl

Daryl — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 21:44:30 +0000

So, what’re we recommending for our users? Don’t use Flock until this problem goes away? Delete or save a copy of your profile before restarting Flock so that if delicious deletes your faves, you can recover them when the problem’s traced down? Are favorites actually being deleted from delicious or are they simply disappearing from Flock. We need to publish something more clear about the data integrity ramifications of this and how users should proceed until further notice.